One of the most useful things Creative Systems ideas do is help us rethink history, think about where we have come from in more dynamic and complete ways. As part of this is helps put the truths we have drawn on in historical perspective. We can apply the Creative Function to help delineate how our different ways of thinking about truth—scientific truth, religious truth, artistic truth, the evolution of our ideas about government, education, or the human body—have evolved through time.
This section looks first at how most generally at how CST rewrites history. Then it turn to how CST provides a big picture vantage for thinking about philosophical truth. Finally it draws on the evolution of music to provide a more multi-intelligence approach to CST’s picture of changing realities over time.